When actor Maggie Smith died in late September, the media highlighted memorable clips from her long screen career. The witty dowager, the professor of sorcery, glimpses of Shakespearean scenes. No ...
Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the ...
Early in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the 1969 film starring Maggie Smith in an Oscar-winning performance, Smith stands in front of a classroom of young teenage girls and informs them that they are ...